by Sally Nash • With just 18 months to go before the first 40-tonners hit UK roads, the Government finally admitted this week...

11 An embarrassing legal reprimand to France, which could help prevent future disruption to international operators from French...

by Karen Miles • Operators and drivers face more complicated drivers' hours rules following this week's EC proposal that...

• Drivers at Kwik Save and Northern Foods Transport have rejected pay offers. Brian Revell, TGWU national secretary for food,...

D oes any good ever come out of the House of Lords? If nothing else the recent exchange in "The Other Place" highlighted the...

by David Craik • Livestock hauliers are seeking urgent clarification on the amount of financial pain they can expect following...

• A former policeman who drove in front of a truck to stop it overtaking has been convicted of dangerous driving and causing...

• Civil servants will advise transport ministers how to update enforcement of the operator licensing system within the next...

by Brendan Nolan • The liquidator of the collapsed Bell Lines shipping company has confirmed that the payout to UK, Irish and...

• An estimated 40 trucks wen: wrecked in riots in Northern Ireland last week, devastating operators on both sides of the...

• Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott confirmed his longterm aim to transfer more freight from road to rail last week when he...

• TNT Logistics has branched out into the installation of as appliances as part of a contract with British Gas Energy Centres....

by Sally Nash • Hopes that Steve Bryant, the owner-driver jailed in Morocco for drugs trafficking, would be freed this month...

• Essex lorry driver Steven Murray, whose truck was involved in a fatal accident last month, has been remanded in custody for...

• Seafrance has warned that freight rates could more than double if the planned abolition of duty free sales goes ahead in...

• The United Road Transport Union denies making a U-turn over its pledge to publicly shame employers who force drivers to break...

• Three Surrey hauliers have been banned from a local waste site after a successful objection from the county council....

• Van hire companies in the West Midlands have been told to clean up their act after trading standards officers found an...

Ml The Government is expected to invite the praise of hauliers— and the wrath of environmentalists—next week by approving two...

by Brian Weatherley • Timing is everything. Even ERF's fiercest rivals would admit that the timing of its Fuel Duel campaign...

by Steve Sturgess • Cummins has launched its long-awaited 600hp engine, code-named Apex, as the Signature 600. As predicted, it...

• Hyundai's H100 panel van will go on sale next month for around £9,500 (ex-VAT). The basic-trim model will have a 2.5-litre...

• Hatcher Components has manufactured the first topsleeper in the UK for the Mercedes Actros S Cab. Made from GRP, NightCap...

• Skilled truck drivers could be thrown on the scrap heap by new technology, if science experts have got their predictions...

• Drivers paying into personal pension schemes may have to increase their contributions by 15% following the Chancellor's...

3. JK Transport must wait to see what action • Hinckley-based must wait to see what action Eastern Traffic Commissioner...

• A West Yorkshire firm of pallet recyclers has been warned that a second appearance at a disciplinary inquiry would have...

• Drivers' hours offences and the falsification of a tachograph record have cost a North Wales lorry driver £775 in fines and...

• An Essex operator who was said to have operated untaxed vehicles for years and to owe tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid...

• Ferodo is to launch a product called Brake Alert which is said to highlight problems with worn brakes. It can be fitted to...

• New wheelnut security devices are being marketed by Hatcher Components of Woodbridge, Suffolk and Tisbury, Wilts supplier...

Support for DSA I have read the letter headed DSA disaster, in this week's edition, with some amazement. I was chatting to a...

July) struck a chord with many, I suspect. It was not only a worthwhile re-statement of the truck and car populations (a pity...

TRUNKER ere driving WHOSE truck?" Whenever Commercial Motor talks to readers about roadtests you say you prefer to see...

6-12 March). Could we expect the same from the Scania? Pausing only to comb our hair and polish our shoes (well it was a...

, H ow about this one, sir? The Skoda Pick-Me Up—it's a reasonably priced little Czech number, but it travels well and it...

division of Securicor the biggest in the company and a major player in its own right. And it hasn't stopped spending yet— plans...

cerise, white and blue colour scheme, says transport operations manager Chris Clayton (pictured, left) whose idea it was to...

T he past few years have seen a major change in the freight industry's perception of itself. The tidal wave of logistics has...